Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1901, Page 19

w September 15, 1901, Gleanings from the Story Teller’s Pack ENERAL SHERMAN was one the most approachable men ever commanded a great army, says a writer in Lippincott's. Dur ing his famous “march to the sea" of who both north and south were completely mystified as to what point he was striking for and one day an old Georgia planter who had called at his headquarters and en joyed his good cheer asked him plumply if he had any objection to telling where his army was bound. Not the least,” eald Sherman. Then, leaning over, he whispered in his guest’ ear, but so loudly that everybody else In the tent overheard it, “We are going pretty much where we d--n please.” At the and Navy club the other evening, the New York Times, a group of officers were discussing the recent lifficulties of ex-Senator Chandler with Rear Admiral Evans. One of the officers now retired, mentioned incidentally the fact that Mr. Chandler, upon taking up the navy portfolio, was not as familiar with nautical matters as might be desired Soon after taking hold of his official du- ties the secretary had occasion to visit what was at the time one of the larger vessels o the navy. Upon the morning following ht arrival the commanding officer, after a brief xchange of greetings Army relates said: with nothing over he 100 words | constructed a headli h was rig to the mark. The ney I was instructed to tell the man who the c¢h for the ountry ¢ ndents to kit £5 off the correspondent's pay When he recelved chie wrote to Mr. Storey saying 11 or linary cir cumstances he w In't Kick about the leduction, but in thi part instance he did becan the fool head over the item, made 1 L fool telepraph editor, had infuriated th whose was men tioned in the 4 ttch and brought on a ficht between him and th orrespondent the result of which was that the corre spondent was fined & the police court “Mr. Story was a Just man when yYou got at him the right way. He in ructed the cashier to send the correspond ent the amount of the fine and ra my sulary becau the headline I wrote had caused a row That was his way of en couraging a headline writer.' Carpenter’s Letter (Continued from Sixth Page.) and keep the labore:s in debt hy glving them credit and paying them in store order This would mean the practical enslavement STRIPPING THE CINCHONA BARK FROM “Mr. Secretary, would you care to marines mustered on the quarterdeck? “H'h,” replied the head of the depart- ment, so the story goes, “it scems to me that for the secretary of the navy at least a half-dollar deck should be provided."” Governor Odell of New York is fond of a good story and does not withhold one even if the point of it is against himself. “Some yvears ago,” he said the other day, “I was a candidate for a local office and I did some canvassing in a country town. One of the most influential democrats there owned a barber shop and 1 was advised to see him. I entered the shop and while the knight of the razor was shaving me I sounded him carefully, But he soon told me that he could not support me. When 1 left the chair 1 remarked that if he could not vote for me he had at least improved my appcar- ance. ‘Well, it don't take much to do that,’ he answered."” - safeguards, many s of Free Before the d: says the Detroit proper Press, a goold cattle got in the paths of Michigan railroads or s0 badly® in them out of and were killed outright jured as to necessitate put misery These happenings frequently afforded the owners of the cattle an op- portunity to bring suit against the rail- road companies, so that the employes were required to be very careful to details and to keep a strict record of the manner of a cow's death, et Regular printed re ports of such cases had to be turned in by the section master, who was required to fill out blanks stating the probable of the deceased animal, weight, color, distinguish ing marks and disposition of carcass, the animal being sometimes cut up and =old for bheef, Naturally it was an Irish section ‘schuperintendent,” who, like Finnigan in his terse report of a wreck simply stated “Off agin, on agin, gone gin - Fim it made out the record of certain hovin tragedy in a characteristic way Mike guessed pretty well at the age and weight and color of the dead cow, but when he came to the line “disposition of carcass' he scratched his head reflectively “Sure ke muttered ‘she doied aisy anyway." Then opposite the line he scrawled, “Kind and gentle”’ - ® I was slashing copy on old Storey's Chicago Times many years ago,' said one of the guests at a New York reunion dinner “We had a correspondent in an Illinois town who simply would not schedule his matter but as he generally sent good stuff we let him run on, slashing his stuff to suit the exigencies of the night. Besides, his stuff always suggested good headlines, and that was one of Storey's hobbies “On one cceasion the correspondent up about 700 words which went into sent 100 THE TREES. of the natives. You see the Javanese a much like children. They have no care for the morrow and no idea whatever of ac cumulation. We protect them by holding on to the lands. If we allowed them have the lands they would sell them to the Europeans and they in turn might resell to the Chinese." How the Government Leases Lands, Tt deal to how to with the of a question to manage was a good the government »s lands,” continued Lord Van Bethem van den Berg, “and T think you will find it quite a problem in the Phillppines. When we took hold of this island there was much waste land and it was undecided whether it belonged to the government or the na- tives. Thereupon the government advanced the theory that the lands originally came from God to the kings of Java and to the Dutch government as the heir to those kings. “The government now leases its lands for terms of seventy-five years at about a gulden, mere or less, per acre This rent takes the place of taxes, although there s an additional tax on incomes. At present there are about 900.000 acres leased out in that way, and it s the only way that land can bhe secured. Since 1816 the government has not allenated any land in this island and at present there are little over 2,000,000 acres owned by the Europeans and less than 500,000 acres owned by the Chinese." The conversation here turned to the Java- nese, as compared to the Filipinos, and 1 told his excellency that our people were telling the Filipinos they were our equals He replied: Word Abhout the Filipinos, “In that you are makineg a mistake. They are not your equals They are children and you are doing as much wrong to tell them that as you would if yvou were to tell your little boy that he is as strong In body and brain as yourself. The Filipinos will not understand you, and you will do your- selves and them a damage which will take ve to repair We try to impress our superfority on the natives. They have been accustomed to look up to their chlefs, and we try to have them do the same to us. It may be that they will so advance in time that we can treat them differently. At present they are as happy as any people of their kind anywhere. They do not suffer, and travelers say they are the happlest and most prosperous of all the natives of the far east FRANK G. CARPENTER Defending the Cup (Continued from Fifth Paga.) sudden and remarkable change in the rela tive speed of the two hoats This match gave hirth to a new died of gift. The official measurement of the Thi: tla revealed that her dimensions consldera THE ITLLUSTRATED bly exceeded those given in the challenge Ihe discovery caused much dlscussien, ard to prevent a like conceaiment in the futur Mr. Schuyler was asked to formulate a new deed. This requires ten (Instead of slv) months' notice of challenge and the exact limensions of the challenger In 1863, four new boats were built to r Valkyrie 11 Burigess was dead, and the Herreshoffs, who were known as th builders of fast steam yachts, came to the frent with a bound I'hey bullt two boat for New York syndicates; the Tobin-bronz centerboard Vigilant, for E. D. Morga €. Oliver Igelin and others; the steel keel Colonta, for Archibald Rogers General Paine built from hig own deslgns the tal last-fin Jublice, with two centerboards, one in the fin, the other in the huil well for ward \ Boston syndicate also built the fin-keel Pilgrim. The Boston beats were never in the contest It was narrowed at the outset to the Vigilant and Colonia, and the former proved the botter by several minute Evirybody who saw the two first race between the Vigilant and the Valkyrl lisappointed, not to say dumbfounded by the poor showin f the former in t'e dward work of the last race The fault not in the boat, but in the handling Captain Iselin had been warned in the morning by the weather burcau, as had also the ehallenger, that a storm was appreach He reefed hic mainsail, but made no responding deere in his head al's Consequently when the boat was put on the wind the excess of sail forward outbal anced the mainsail, and made the boat sag o leeward. The skipper of the Valkytle displayed better judgment; he put a lalf reef in his mainsail and set smaller stay- sail and jib, thus preserving the balance of his ilspread, and beat the Vigllant handsomely to the outer mark. But Captaln BEE LA Y Iselin redeemed himself on the home run by setting in a gale every stitch of canvas | that his boat could carry in light weather It was a fine exhibition boat gave an exhibition of speed surpassing anything that had ever been seen in the history of yachting, and fairly leaped from the crest of huge wave to the next And how it overtook the Valkyrie! It is safe to say that no one who witnessed the of pluck and h'e one sight will ever forget it, After the Vigilant had brought him world-wide fame, “Nat'" Herreshoft pri- vately told a friend that he could bufld a fin-keel boat to beat it from ten to twelve minutes over a thirty-knot cour:e He had built fin-keel boats of smaller alze previously, and they had achleved astonfsh- ing suc When he was commissloned by Messrs. Morgan and Iselin to bulld a boat to meet the Valkyrie 11 in 1895 he put his idea into form and the Defender was the result It was not the first time that the fin-keel experiment had been tried for the defense of the cup But it was the first time it had been tried by a master hand, and the centerboard in international | vachting annals, speedily beeame a mems- ory WILLIAM E. SIMMONS Mormon Stronghold (Continued from Third Page.) pendence, Mo., which is another Mormon stronghold, and next year they will meet at Lamoni They expect to make public at their next annual conference their plan for the organization of “stakes.' They will measure or stake out sacred tracts of land one at Lamoni, and the other at Indepen dence, where they helieve that Christ will first appear on earth when He comes again to His elect., These Mormons believe in the Old and New testaments, the Book of Mormon, Doce trine and Covenants, which they claim are latter day revelations from God. 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